Press release – Is Walmart the only culprit?
April 3rd 2018Press Release In the case of employees with intellectual disabilities Is Walmart the only culprit? Montreal, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 – Last Thursday, we learned that the company was laying off a good number of employees in its 26 branches...
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Press release: S.O.S. For the Commission (on human and youth rights) Access to justice for the most disadvantaged is compromised
March 20th 2018The RAPLIQ reaction Montreal, Monday, March 19, 2018 – Following the recent events that have shaken the Human Rights and Youth Commission (CDPDJ), the RAPLIQ, which is well aware of the workings of this organization, wishes to express its point...
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Focus
January 9th 2018A text by Steven Laperriere, Vice-President, RAPLIQ At the start of the year, with all the turmoil that Linda’s candidacy and mine in the last election campaign caused within the RAPLIQ, its membership and in the associative sector, a clarification...
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Another victory: in Quebec Superior Court – the RAPLIQ against the Commission on Human Rights and Youth Rights (CDPDJ)
June 24th 2017It will be recalled that last January, the CDPDJ closed 15 complaints filed by the RAPLIQ in December 2011, under the pretext that the complainants had not experienced discrimination and simply did not agree with the services offered by the...
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The absence of a terrace accessible to people with reduced mobility denounced
June 18th 2017(Source Journal Métro ) The Association of Activists for Inclusion in Quebec (RAPLIQ) denounces the lack of access for people with reduced mobility on the new terrace of the Institut du tourisme et de l’hôtellerie du Québec (ITHQ), which promises nevertheless to...
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A historic victory!
May 30th 2017There is not a single fight in life that is not worth fighting for. Last Friday, just before 4 p.m., Judge Paquette traced, in the sand of Quebec society, the first meters of the path leading people with disabilities towards...
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Wok & Soupe
May 1st 2017SETTLEMENT DATE – MAY 2017 The complainant is the mother of a 5-year-old child, severely disabled, who acts on behalf of her son. The latter is in a motorized wheelchair and lives with cerebral palsy, which in his case causes...
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THE STM AND DISCRIMINATION IN PUBLIC TRANSIT: A DECISION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION REDUCES THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
April 13th 2017Press Release STM AND DISCRIMINATION IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION DECISION REDUCES RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Montreal, April 11, 2017 – The RAPLIQ strongly criticized a recent decision concerning discrimination in public transportation in Montreal, which the Commission...
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AML Cruises inc.
June 1st 2016SETTLEMENT DATE – JUNE 2016 A woman traveling in a motorized wheelchair wanted to go celebrate her wedding anniversary on the cruise ship “Cavalier Maxim” of Croisières AML Inc., which offers a gourmet dinner lasting three and a half hours,...
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Shilldev Holdings Ltd
March 1st 2016SETTLEMENT DATE – MARCH 2016 A man in a motorized wheelchair filed a complaint against a merchant who rented commercial space in one of the buildings belonging to Shilldev Holdings, for refusing indirect access to his business. For reasons of...
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